Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-09-15
PENlNSUlAR POINTERS.
Baraga county has slate quarry.


Baraga county has a slate quarry.
Branch county is agitating local option.
The 800" had $4,000 fire the other
day.
A peppermint mill will be built in Che
boygan.
Work has been commenced on Lowell S
water works.
North Branch is to bnild an $4,000
school house.
Antrim county wants local option
special election.
A beautiful cut stone depot is being
built at Hudson.
Lansing is threatened with an epidemic
of typhoid fever
William Haver, for 40 years a resident
Of Flint, is dead.
There are GA pupils in the Big Rapids
industrial school.
Laird is the name of new postohce III
Houghton county.
The spruce swamp near Hamburg' was
burned the other day.
Railroad men count on track to Mall
istique inside of year.
Arthur Gluch was fatally injured on the
railroad near Buchanan.
Crawling is very plentiful in the streams
the upper peninsula.
Owosso will hold state sanitary con-
vention Nov. 22 and 20.
John Pickett of Negaunee, Is said to be
lost in the woods near Baraga.
John Butterfeld's fish pond at Troy, Is
fairly alive with German carp.
DIR. G. r. Rand, superintendent of the
poor for Eaton county, is dead.
Bay county will assume control OF the
Tuscola plank road, July 1, 1883.
Track laying has commenced on the
Lowell, Freeport IL Hastings road.
The A. o. u. w. of East Saginaw will
dedicate their new hall September 20.
Lansing is to have a street railway to
the fair grounds and agricultural college.
Prof. Butts of Pontiac declines the offer
of a professorship in the Iowa university.
f. C. Adams of Battle Creek recently
made a run of 1888 miles on wheel-back.
a society for the prevention of cruelty
to animals has been organized in jackson.
Harris Stilson, a resident of Michigan
for So years, died in Vassar few days
ago.
Constantine is negotiating for SIS, 1000
factory TO grind out furniture by water
power
The next meeting of the Michigan bust
ness mems association will be held at Che-
boygan.
All but 05 per cent of the right of way
has been secured by the Toledo, Saginaw
Il Mackinac.
Gen. Benz. f. Butler will be in East
Saginaw, Nov. on business connected
with Hoyt estate.
Prof Langley of the university, is at
tending the meeting of the British asso-
citation in London,
Old vesselmen say that the September
gale was one of the most terrible ever
known on the lakes.
Stanton will issue bonds for $4,000 for
grading all roads conyergng there for
| distance of six miles out.
Gov. Luce has appointed James E. Hen
derson of Cadillac stenographer for the
fifteenth judicial district.
d. A. Blodgett has $4,000, 900 feet of
pine vet to find an outlet through the
Clam river railway system.
d. n. Avery shot duck at Muskegon
twelve hours before Sept. l, and will an
swer for it before justice.
Bay City's public library has been
moved into its new quarters. There are
IS, 900 volumes in the library.
The body of an unknown man was
found near Mount Morris on the 9th inst
The man died of heart disease.
lode of silver and lead has been
found on the farm of Edward Chatterdon,
near Barran Lake, Cass county.
The millers' state association will meet
at jackson Sept. 81, and it is expected
that large number will attend.
Chas. d. Long, supreme judge elect will
represent Michigan at the Philadelphia
centennial constitution celebration.
In an alteration at Vassar over a
threshing bill, Jay Lee struck Walter Ray,
knocking out his eyes Law suits will
follow
| A man named George G. Armitage, said
TO hail from Three Rivers, is charged with
Ascending with some $4,000 out In Ne
braska.
The board of agriculture has taken noac-
ton in the matter ut issue between Prof.
college.
Work on the Port Huron tunnel has not
advanced any for month, and future OPP
erations are stated TO lie uncertain OF
commencement.
Thomas Murphy was killed by blast
at the South Jackson mine in Negaunet
the other morning. He leaves a wife and
three children in England.
Thomas Wiltar, an Englishman EN-.
ployed in the hematite mines near Ish
peming, had his left leg cut completely
Off In a mine accident the other day.
A. c. BurdIck of Coldwater is one of the
contractors for the proposed Kansas q
Texas railroad, line 1.500 miles long, tC
be constructed by English capitalists.
Two freight trains on the Michigan
Central collided near Ann Arbor the othel
morning. The damage is about 81, 50t
and traffic was suspended several hours.
Victor Mclaughlin, who lived neal
Byron, was accldently shot dead by Libbi,
Fooie. She pointed revolver at him II
fun and il went of. He was 10. She Il
Is years OF age.
John A Halstead died i'm Shelby recent
J In at the advanced age of so years. HI
/ settled in Calhoun county In 1887, ans
, knew Battle Creek when there wasn't
e.or.o bo,,oa Ia,